Read more[Myth #] 5. Coffee is bad for you.
FICTION – This myth has been perpetrated from studies that have now been disproved. According to the Mayo Clinic, “Earlier studies didn’t always take into account that known high-risk behaviours, such as smoking and physical inactivity, tended to be more common among heavy coffee drinkers at that time.”
Read moreSo the scientists next gently placed the remaining mice in ice-cold water for five minutes. Mice do not enjoy cold water. They find immersion stressful and anxiety-inducing, although it is not life-threatening.
Then the scientists checked these animals’ brains. They were looking for markers, known as immediate early genes, that indicate a neuron has recently fired.
Read moreThe point that must be remembered is that most of political and church history has been controlled and written by people on the Right because they are normally the people in control. One of the few subversive texts in history, believe it or not, is the Bible.
Read moreThere are five steps:
(1). Active Listening: Listen to their side and make them aware you’re listening.
(2). Empathy: You get an understanding of where they’re coming from and how they feel.
(3). Rapport: Empathy is what you feel. Rapport is when they feel it back. They start to trust you.
Read moreThe magnitude of the decline in HPV infections surprised public health experts because only about a third of teenage girls in the United States have been vaccinated with the full course of three doses. By comparison, vaccination rates in countries like Denmark and Britain are above 80 percent.
Read moreThe other thing is that making friends when we’re younger, while maybe not always easy, was somewhat of a necessity. From the time we’re in kindergarten to when we graduate college, friendship-making is such an important part of our social and personal development, it’s almost not even optional.
Read moreI Married the Wrong Guy
He was sweet, sexy and financially stable, and I told myself we’d be great together. I was totally lying.
Firstly, read the whole post. It’s worth it.
Read moreStasi and I just spent a weekend together in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where we wandered for hours through art galleries and gardens, looking for those works of art that particularly captured us. Toward the afternoon of our second day, Stasi asked me, “Have you seen one painting of a naked man?”
Journal of the American Medical Association
In January of this year, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an analysis of 100 studies in what looked like an honest attempt to assess the relationship between body mass index and mortality.
Read moreRead moreIf you want leadership in a swarm, you stand up and say “I’m going to do X because I think it will accomplish Y. Anybody who wants to join me in doing X is more than welcome.” Anybody in the swarm can stand up and say this, and everybody is encouraged to.
